On July 21 (8), 1898 , Georgy Langemak, the creator of Katyusha, a pioneer of missile technology, was the first to use the term “astronautics”. Personal business Georgy Erikhovich Langemak (1898-1938) was born in Starobelsk in the Kharkov province in a German family and Swiss who accepted Russian citizenship. After the gymnasium graduated, he decided to devote his life to Japanese literature and entered the philological faculty of Petrograd University. However, he was soon drafted into the army.

The Ministry of Transport determined that the modernization of the Kerch crossing connecting the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory will begin on September, when a tourist flow subsides. Such a statement was made by the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov at a meeting of the interdepartmental working group for the work of the crossing.

One of the richest people in Ukraine and the president of Shakhtar football club Rinat Akhmetov, in an interview with R-Sport, expressed the hope that six squads of the squads who were not landing on a flight for a flight to Lviv on Sunday will soon return to the team’s location. He stated that he did not know what moved the players when making such a decision - the fear of returning to Ukraine in a restless period or an element of trade for a transition to another club.

The Russian government began to distribute the sanatoriums of Crimea that previously belonged to Ukraine between various Russian companies and state structures. On Monday, Kommersant writes about this with reference to the representative of the Department of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who oversees Crimea in the Cabinet of Ministers. According to the publication, recently four such health resorts have received at their disposal of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

About a hundred participants in the Seliger-2014 youth forum were in a hospital with food poisoning, Interfax reports on Monday with reference to one of the forum participants. “A lot of people were poisoned, about a hundred were sent to the hospital,” his source quotes the news agency. He also said that the victims, who are not so bad, remained in the camp.

At the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing, specialists found the bodies of 251 deceased and 66 fragments of tel. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Ukrainian rescuers. The bodies of the dead are loaded into the refractor wagons at the Torez railway station. In the Torez, as Interfax adds, the second train has already arrived for further transportation of bodies.

In Sochi on the mountain track 20 cars and 40 tourists remain blocked, which were there as a result of the melting flows on the road in the area of ​​the Rosa Khutor ski resort, ITAR-TASS reports. The day before, rescuers evacuated 60 people, but 40 people refused evacuation and remained next to their cars. Tourists spent the night in tents, nobody needed medical care.

Latvia introduced three Russian pop artists - Oleg Gazmanov, Joseph Kobzon and Valery on the black list of people who are prohibited from entering the country. This was reported on the website of the Latvian foreign policy.

On the territory of the ZIL plant in Moscow, the fourth fire has occurred over the past two months. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the representative of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to him, the former workshop of the building, which failed. There were no people inside the building. The area of ​​fire is not yet known. Smoke walked from the windows of the third floor. At the moment, the fire is extinguished.

The Rospotrebnadzor said that the cause of the food poisoning of the participants of the Seliger youth camp, which is held in the Tver region, could be gross sanitary violations in the work of the catering unit. It is reported by Interfax . According to the agency, in total, 142 participants in the camp were poisoned , 34 of them were hospitalized. Three victims are in a state of moderate severity, the rest have a slight form of poisoning.

Andrey Levkin At night, on the official website of the President of the Russian Federation, an appeal was published in connection with Boeing. This is an extremely peaceful statement. Moreover, it duplicates - even in a softened version - what Putin said immediately after the disaster.

Moscow law enforcement officers opened a criminal case on the fact of shelling the Mercedes car on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Interfax reports. The case was opened under the article "Hooliganism." The incident occurred on the night of July 20. The owner of the car, the 35-year-old native of the city of Grozny, was fired at the house 2/1 on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The fire was opened by unknown people who were traveling at two “frets”. The driver of a foreign car was hospitalized.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, July 22, which will be devoted to ensuring the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Kremlin press service. Last night, the president made a special statement regarding the collapse of the passenger Boeing “Malaysian Airlines” in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

A point has been opened in the Moscow Metro where families of those killed and injured as a result of the train crash on July 15 can apply for compensation. This was reported by the press service of the capital's subway. The point is located in the foyer of the metro administration building at the address: Prospekt Mira, 41, building 2 and is open daily from 08:00 to 20:00.

The train with the bodies of the Malaysian Airlines who died as a result of the disaster of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft began traffic in the direction of Kharkov through Donetsk, reported by the Chairman of the State Commission for investigating the causes of the Boeing-777 aircraft disaster, Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman President Petro Poroshenko.